Indians and Poles are among the most important immigrant groups in the UK. In 2009, with 625 000 persons, Indians are the largest foreign born group, the Poles are now the largest group of foreign nationality (494 000 persons) (ONS 2009). The choice of these two groups was driven by the intent...

This paper explores the organizational conditionals that explain why immigrant associations in Spain have access to two basic resources required to develop transnational interventions, generally referred to as codevelopment strategies, namely access to public funding in the country of residence...

Desde finales de los noventa se han puesto en marcha políticas que conectaban en distintas direcciones la migración y el desarrollo. A menudo, en el discurso político la conexión principal pasa por cómo utilizar la emigración como una fuente de desarrollo en origen, o en cómo generar un...

The paper offers the results of the first comprehensive study on Nicaraguan immigrant organizations and Hometown Associations (HTAS) in Miami-Dade County (MDC). It sheds light on the contexts in which they emerged and operate, their evolution, major characteristics, the multi-pronged social ties...

This brief aims to provide an update on key developments in the area of migration and remittance flows and related policies over the past six months. It also provides medium-term (three year) projections of remittance flows to developing countries

After a lapse of over half a century, the United States has again become a country of immigration. In 1990, the foreign-born population reached 19.8 million or 7.9 percent of the total. By 2008, the number had grown to 39.3 million or 13 percent of the total. Although not yet reaching the...

We review the theoretical and empirical literatures on the role of institutions on national development as a prelude to present a more rigorous and measurable definition of the concept and a methodology to study this relationship at the national and subnational levels. The existing research...

In summarizing the five Mexican cases studied for the Institutions and Development project, The case studies summarized here were conducted from 2005 to 2008, and this paper refers mainly to that period. Yet, whenever possible, information coming from published documents or statistical reports...

This article summarizes the principal findings of the studies on institutions and development as they refer to the Dominican case study, in the context of the Project Institutions and Development in Latin America, which is directed by Alejandro Portes of the University of Princeton. The project...